Attractiveness Quotes - Page 4

• His [Osama bin Laden]excessive use of terror, including numerous attacks that indiscriminately killed many women and children, and of course many Muslims, has hurt the attractiveness of his message.

  Joseph Nye

  Hurt, Children, Use

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• The sexual regions constitute a particularly vulnerable spot, and remain so even in man, and the need for their protection which thus exists conflicts with the prominent display required for sexual allurement. This end is far more effectively attained, with greater advantage and less disadvantage, by concentrating the chief ensigns of sexual attractiveness on the upper and more conspicuous parts of the body. This method is well-nigh universal among animals as well as in man.

  Havelock Ellis

  Animal, Men, Needs

  Havelock Ellis (1905). “Studies in the Psychology of Sex: Sexual selection in man: I. Touch. II. Smell. III. Hearing. IV. Vision”

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• Beneath all the rhetoric about relevance lies a profoundly disturbing possibility - that people may base their lives upon an illusion, upon a blatant lie. The attractiveness of a belief is all too often inversely proportional to its truth... To allow "relevance" to be given greater weight than truth is a mark of intellectual shallowness and moral irresponsibility.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Lying, People, Intellectual

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• Frequent comparative ranking can only reinforce a short-term investment perspective. It is understandably difficult to maintain a long-term view when, faced with the penalties for poor short-term performance, the long-term view may well be from the unemployment line ... Relative-performance-oriented investors really act as speculators. Rather than making sensible judgments about the attractiveness of specific stocks and bonds, they try to guess what others are going to do and then do it first.

  Seth Klarman

  Views, Perspective, Long

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• There's going to be a demand for perfectionism on the part of Hillary Clinton, or any other pro-equality woman candidate, that would not be made of men. There are going to be attacks based on different standards of morality and different standards of dress and physical attractiveness.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Dresses, Different

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?

  Isaac Asimov

  Gains, Forbidden, All Time

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.242, Spectra

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• Sadly, too much has changed about publishing ... not only does attractiveness matter to agents and editors, but there's no room anymore for a reclusive writer.

  Cris Mazza

  Editors, Matter, Too Much

  "'My discoveries weren't any more extensive or alarming than most people's. I just chose to look'". Interview with Antonia Crane, logger.believermag.com. November 5, 2013.

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• Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

  Warren Farrell

  Availability, Rewards, Workplace

  "The Myth of Male Power". Book by Warren Farrell, 1993.

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• If you know how to value businesses, it's crazy to own 50 stocks or 40 stocks or 30 stocks, probably because there aren't that many wonderful businesses understandable to a single human being in all likelihood. To forego buying more of some super-wonderful business and instead put your money into #30 or #35 on your list of attractiveness just strikes Charlie and me as madness.

  Warren Buffett

  Crazy, Investing, Buying

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• I hold it to be the moral duty of women to make themselves beautiful in all lawful ways.

  Eliza Lynn Linton

  Beautiful, Way, Moral

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